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- 1984
- PG-13
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 54 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 54 m
Summary It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Directed By: John Milius
Written By: Kevin Reynolds, John Milius
- 1984
- PG-13
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 54 m
- 1984
- PG-13
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 54 m
Red Dawn
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5.6
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Summary It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Directed By: John Milius
Written By: Kevin Reynolds, John Milius
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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4 Reviews
60% Mixed
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9 Reviews
13% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
53
27% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This is what we call a movie-movie, a movie that throws nuance and self-consciousness and artiness to the wind and concentrates on the slam-bam. It's richly entertaining, it's big, it moves fast. [10 Aug 1984, p.C1]
What if Reagan’s America got a taste of her own interventionist foreign policies? Apocalypse, wow.
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Based on 30 User Ratings
5.6
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
23% Mixed
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30% Negative
9 Ratings
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User Score
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Based on 30 User Ratings
5.6
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
30% Negative
9 Ratings
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As an action movie, Red Dawn is a repetitive headache, and anyone with Blue State sympathies will be appalled at its manipulations and exaggerations. But there's smart subtext beneath the big dumb explosions.
Red Dawn is at once a mainstream shoot ‘em up action picture and an ideologically demented exercise in American paranoia.
Red Dawn charges off to an exciting start as a war picture and then gets all confused in moralistic handwriting, finally sinking in the sunset. Swayze, Howell and the other youngsters are all good in their parts.
The film is too dumb to work as patriotic exhortation and too mawkish to work as blood-and-guts exploitation. It's a long commercial in which the Marlboro Man has become the American Guerrilla, with his good buddies, good guns and a bottomless case of Coors. [03 Sep 1984, p.73]
Another infantile right-wing fantasy from writer-director John Milius, this cinematic embodiment of the paranoid delusions of militarists, survivalists, and television evangelists is definitely a film for the Reagan era. Red Dawn is simply too
simplistic and inept to be taken seriously.
